The New Yorker (Nov. 25) -- Ever since humans invented computer chips, we have dreamed of plugging them into us, or plugging us into them. Researchers traditionally considered marrying electronics to biology using circuits made not from inorganic silicon but from pliable organic materials. But John Rogers had another idea. In 2011, he and his colleagues announced the invention of a device that had hitherto seemed impossible: an integrated silicon circuit with the mechanical properties of skin. (Online article requires subscription).